The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-10-23
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Teer People.

out saying TO tho readers OF THE Sun that OF
oil the spots In which have tarried during my
laborious pilgrimage In Europe. no one has
been superior to this for its restfulness and It's
salubrity. We oame here on the 1st OF last
December. The winter months were mild and
damp but not cold. We had neither snow nor
Ice, and from the middle Of February up to
this date the weather here has been the most
delightful ever experienced by me in any
country. From the bottom Of my heart pray
that q kind Providence may send to this lovely
spot and its despairing population come
wealthy and enterprising friends who will ro-
yive agriculture. industry. and commerce. and
make life worth living In this land, which ma
ture destined to be q paradise, but which the
worst form OF Irish landlordism has reduced to
barren, depopulated wilderness.
must not, however. tear myself away from
Glengariff and It's warm-hearted and brightly
Intelligent people without laying before Amer
loan readers picture In which oil may behold
at glance By what methods tho devoted Irish
priests keep alive In the souls Of their people
that deep. seated and practical religious faith
that survives tho prosecutions Of centuries,
and enables them to cling so tenaoiously to
their native soil In spite Of tho unspeakable
hardships Of their lot: for Irish patriotism
has it's root in the Irish heart, sprinIing undy.
ing ana Vl&orous iEom the tWin RoIm Oh tnat
Same faith.
with tho month OF October tho parishes oil
around US have begun what is called the hold
ing Of stations" Now. Qlengarin parish.
with single priest to minister to its scattered
people. covers an area Of twice the oxtent Of
Westohester county. This urea, moreover, is
wild and mountainous. one lofty ridge, tho
Gaia Mountains, rising to o height OF 1000
feet, and separating Cork from Kerry. For
merly, before the depopulation which followed
fast upon tho great famine OF 1851. there
were numerous villages all along the valleys
and hillsldes in this district. But eviction.
emigration. and starvation have sadly drained
the land Of it's once sturdy peasantry, and the
crowbar brigade" have blotted out many
O populous hamlet and left many q glen
and mountain slope without . cabin or
q human being. Still Father Mangan the
indefatigable priest Of Glengarif. hos some Ave
or six thousand souls to minister to. Tho two
rustic churches Tor "chapes." as they here
call Catholic religious edifloes Of the largest
dimensions and the first rank are twelve
miles apart, the one. the poorer. In Glengsrin
village: the other. the principal. ON the Kerry
side OF the Gaia range. He has, on Sundays
and festivals Of obligation. to celebrate early
mass In his chapel at Bonane. where he re-
sides. and then to drive twelve miles. without
beaten s moantsin road which connects both
chapels. Not before IN In the afternoon. or 2
hsn hs take re- g.
called away to attend some poor sufierer. At o
distance In the wild glens around. He is
spend Fs e Ii. e Call h M msas upon to &
even when exhausted nature most needs re-
%Rss eS o IL ls. sfSwas
all Sundays, that neither distance nor storm
can keep away these pious country folk from
the aged and the !nfrm who cannot possibly
attend: Il Is for their benefit especially tnat
and witness It's fruits in every locality. 1 feel
ever existed among q Christian peopls, one
more fitted to bear solid and lasting fruits Of
s or more S1S to bring God 70
to each other the hearts Of pastors and aocks.
The station e held on a week day in house
Father ManTan. tells me. the turn of each
farmer to have +, the station bis house comes
Ia sas eGa sss ss
stout hands Iss him aaio VT The Sss o. Az
pointed, the whole neiEhborhood has already
bssss Mt is hesSd
win the priest prepare to celebrate mass. They
% g s
to serve for on altar. But repeated evictions
snake make sad work Nth the and
and FAXED was the wayslds cave q BsthieRem
Vino ars hi e sfsSSs Snd h
the PEASANTS roof Of thatch and the people
who come . there to xorshig. only feel az In.
Emmanuel, who is q God very near 10 us in
deed. And then, during the long, dark cen;
the s NOT pr sn the ony
religious consolation of their forefathers thus
e NEE! n secret; II fear fer ana trembiins: while
renew tho memory Of His sacrifice, to strength
en- them to suffer ana to sacrifice all. and to
q as sss tse se
Ali. this constant tradition Of devout wor-
and consolation on the other. has never ceased
to renew itself among this simple hearted
seS whose s @ sSa H.s%s the
meas and storms - and horrors 81 long wiatry
During the mas s., the people for the most o.,
hs ThN DO hS 5se c
with cash other before they burst approsch to
religion. In the early ages the hbeil,in COM
,nuni9nis given TO travellers or pilgrims leav-
ing nome Dy their respective Bishops were
passports admitting the bearers to Christian
fellowship on every land, and TO- Q share In the
divine banquet which is on earth q symbol Of
the perfect union Of heaven. l believe that
these customs have mover entirely ceased In
Ireland since tho days Of St. Patrick. The ages
reign OF the penal laws In the last century
only served to- render the private celebration
OF the Eucharistic sacrifice an object Of moro
intense popular devotion. whom attendance at
tho same meant. often. death for priest and
worshippers.
At any rate. the people OF each locality arc
we'll aware that the holding OF = station among
them means among other things, that all
Suarrels aud Quantities must at once be healed;
that scandals, II such should happen to be In
the neiRhborhood. must cease effectually.
i gave communion to upward OF fifty per-
sons this morning." Father ManGan said to
me last night; land after mass and the short
practical Instruction gave them. there was
breakfast for all who had gone to communion.
breakfast for all there. In fact: for the hos
pitaity Of these generous creatures knows no
bounds but their own utter inability to do
what their hearts prompt them to. And they
are now very, very poor. Then had TO bring
communion to all the sick and the inhrm
30 these 'stations" In the Ireland Of the
A0ape,, the feasts OF brotherly love Of the
apostolic age. After partaking together OF
Christ's braRd thew alt down toQatbar n auph